Bill Monroe’s Birthday – Sept 13

Here are a few Bill Monroe tributes that have been recorded since his death on September 6, 1996:

  • Bean Blossom Memories
    • James Monroe “My Father” (Raintree)
  • Bill Monroe for Breakfast
    • Tom T. Hall “Home Grown” (Mercury)
  • Bill Monroe, Singer of Lonesome Songs
    • Jack Tottle “The Bluegrass Sound” (Copper Creek)
  • The Bluegrass King (Has Gone to Heaven)
    • Alvin and Andy, the Bressler Brothers (Shan. Co. Mo. Records; Prime Cuts, Volume 40)
  • Bluer Pastures
    • Dolly Parton “Little Sparrow” (Sugar Hill)
  • Father of Bluegrass
    • Dave Adkins “Better Days” (Mountain Fever)
  • Heart of Rosine
    • Donna Ulisse “Time for Love” (Billy Blue)
  • Is the Grass Any Bluer
    • Rhonda Vincent “The Storm Still Rages” (Rounder)
  • It’s Rainin’ the Blues … for Bill Monroe
    • Butch Baldassari “New Classics for Bluegrass Mandolin” (Soundart)
  • Man from Rosine
    • Bobby Osborne “Memories” (Rural Rhythm)
  • Mandolin Man
    • The Roys “The View” (Rural Rhythm)
  • Monroe’s Doctrine
    • The Special Consensus “Scratch Gravel Road” (Compass)
  • Monroe Special
    • Buddy Merriam and Backroads “Mystery Train” (no label)
  • Monrosine
    • Mark Newton “Living a Dream” (Rebel)
  • My Music Comes from Bill
    • The Spinney Brothers “Tried and True” (Mountain Fever) Also recorded live at the 2014 IBMA Awards Show.
  • Never Been So Blue
    • Cadillac Sky “Blind Man Walking” (Skaggs Family Records)
  • Silver Quarter
    • Chris Stuart and Backcountry “Saints and Strangers” (Backcountry)
  • So Long Bill
    • Randy Howard “I Rest My Case” (Sugar Hill)
  • The Big Man from Rosine
    • The Wildwood Valley Boys “Songs from Wildwood Valley” (Rebel)
  • They’ve Laid the Master Down
    • The Boys from Middle Creek “Up the Creek” (Prime Cuts #34)
  • Weep Not for the Dead
    • Peter Rowan “Bluegrass Boy” (Sugar Hill)
  • William Smith Monroe
    • Niall Toner “Onwards and Upwards” (Pinecastle)
  • Write Bill a Letter
    • Cedar Hill “Write Bill a Letter” (Nickeltown)